Sometimes It’s Storks

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$16.99

This is about a baby boy. This book is scary because this baby has all these adventures, but he is just a baby! He keeps getting lost and found and lost again and passed from one animal to another. He starts out with a stork, but then he goes to a crocodile, a whale, fish, a kangaroo, and lots of other creatures. He goes everywhere around the world, like to the North Pole and then to Australia. Finally a zoo sends him to his parents. The dad is telling the story to the baby. It is so scary! I wouldn’t want that to happen to me! But the pictures are really fun. The animals are cute and not scary, and in each page you can look for the stork that dropped the baby in the first place because he is trying to get the baby back. The words are funny and rhyme, and I am really glad that the baby finally got to his parents! So everyone was happy at the end, even the stork who finally gets to rest on the chimney!

On the cover of this book, I see ballerinas who are Nancy and her little sister. Her dog Frenchy is dressed up like a ballerina, too! I like ballet and so does Fancy Nancy. The book shows Nancy and her friend Bree at ballet class. Nancy wants to dance on her toes. Nancy does an arabesque like I can do an arabesque. She says, “I demonstrate (that’s fancy for show) what I learned today.” Fancy Nancy makes a sign that says “Nancy’s Dance Academy FREE ballet class today! ALL ages welcome!” It would be fun to go to Nancy’s dance school. While I was reading this book, I did pirouettes on my tiptoes but I fell down like Nancy’s dad does in the book. Nancy teaches the five ballet positions to her daddy. I like when Bree and Nancy do a show for the family. It is good that the book tells how to pronounce the special ballet words. These illustrations look like other Fancy Nancy books I have read. My favorite part was when Nancy made the sign. I think this is a good book for kids who like ballerinas.

The construction crew is back! The six dogs and sneaky cat have another job to do! This time they are tearing down an old building downtown with a wrecking ball. This was my favorite part! Then the bulldozers and dump truck get to work. The crew digs trenches, pours concrete, and welds steel to make a frame. They have an accident with glass and a bouncy ball truck! That page made me laugh! It was fun to watch them build this big tall building! Reading this book is so much fun because it has a lot of rhyming words. I really like looking at all of the pictures too! I always try to find that sneaky black cat! This is now one of my favorite books! I hope they continue to write more of these books!

Marisol McDonald is a girl who doesn’t like to match. She likes to be unique and different. Right now she is planning for her birthday party, and she wants her grandma to come over for her birthday, but her grandma lives in Peru. Marisol goes to the store to find a birthday theme, but can’t decide. She finally decides on taking a small bit from each theme. Read Marisol McDonald and the Clash Bash to see what happens when Marisol gets home and if her grandma will come to Marisol’s birthday party.

I thought this was a fun story even though it wasn’t really my type of book; it is for younger readers. But it also has the story in Spanish, and I have already learned some Spanish, so that was pretty cool. I like the pictures too. I think this would be good for children ages about four to eight or nine.

I love Hello Kitty but who doesn’t? She has been around for so long it is cool to still see books come out on her. This is a full color graphic novel following Kitty around as she reads a book that takes her on a bunch of adventures. From climbing a snowy mountain and having a picnic with her friends, putting cute flags on the moon, or going on a lunch date, each different comic is super cute. Some are drawn as if they are really old and some are drawn in the colorful chibi style, like the whale. The Kraken is my favorite character added to this comic.

I love how this graphic novel doesn’t have any writing and you just look at the pictures that tell the story. This means anybody can read it, even if you can’t read. If you collect Hello Kitty stuff or are just looking for a something new to read, I would definitely buy this one or give it as a gift!

Chloe and her friend Leo were going to dress up like monsters from their favorite books. But Emma wanted to be fairies, and for Chloe to be a fairy. Now Chloe is thinking about something she wants – she wants to be a monster but her friend wants her to be a fairy. She made a monster coat, but she made fairy wings. The dog took her book, because Leo wanted to be a monster not a fairy, and Emma wouldn’t be a monster. So she turned out to be a monster and a fairy, she wanted to be a ballerina first, and a monster and a fairy, so now her friends were happy. I love the first picture; love it, love it, love it. The baby and the dog are so funny, and Chloe is upside down. I like Leo the best; he is nice. The baby is going to be a monster too. I like the picture of the mom and a bucket on the baby’s head and the dad was playing with the baby. But I would dress up like a fairy.